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“Watch the first five minutes of ‘Elektra,’ featuring the return of Jennifer Garner as the sultry, sai-weilding siren” at movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/elektra.html.

I’m new to the whole cinematic zombie genre. I’ve seen last year’s remake of Dawn of the Dead and (of course) the hilarious Shaun of the Dead, but that’s about it.

What other ones are out there that I should check out?

I’ve wanted to check out the original DotD, but it seems like there are half a dozen different DVD repackagings and recuttings of the movie, and so I’m not sure which one would be considered definitive by someone in the know.

Any zombie-philes that want to point me in some good directions?

Glad to see my request of ABC and J.J. Abrams for an especially kick-butt “Alias” premiere (it was Noelle’s birthday, after all) was more than met:

Pre-title opening: Kick ass!
New title sequence: Yowza!
Sydneywear: Yummy!
The new black ops set-up: Oooh!
Sloane: That sneaky little weasel…!
The team: Yes! (needs Marshall and Weiss!)
Syd’s revelation of Jack’s deed: Oh. My. God.
Marshall: Oh, thank goodness! (Weiss still needs to be on the team)
The truth of Jack’s deed: Oh. My. God.
Nadia’s parting words: That won’t end well…

Happy Birthday, Noelle!

One hundred thirty-nine thousand, five hundred eighty.

That’s how many people have died from the SEA-EAT, according to current reports.

The meaning, the human cost behind that number still boggles my mind a bit.

I think about the area where Noelle, Scott, and I grew up in Orange County, and how a disaster this size would translate into 92% of the populace in Mission Viejo (93,102) and Lake Forest (58,707) dying.

Think about it: More than nine out of ten of every man, woman, and child, gone.

Maybe Orange County gets spared, and instead it’s the entire city of Torrance that’s wiped from the face of the earth.

Or perhaps everything and everyone I knew in Imperial County disappears, save for a few thousand lucky survivors.

How would the nation react if more than a quarter of Wyoming’s population were to suddenly die? How would the world react?

How would you react?

Will Eisner, of whom I spoke in my very first blog post, has passed away at the age of 87 of complications from heart surgery.

The debt that modern comics storytelling owes to Eisner cannot be underestimated — there’s a reason the comic industry’s versions of the Academy Awards are called the Eisners — both in form and in presentation (the concept of the “graphic novel” was largely his brainchild).

To the end, Eisner had “a hunger to conquer the medium - to achieve the impossible dream kind of like a Don Quixote of the comics.”

His was a hunger that nourished comic readers the world over.

Goodbye, Will.